I just had occasion to reinstall iemulator, and it reminded me what a great program it is. the manual is truly exceptional. Installing windows is enough to give anyone gray hair, but the manual really takes you through it step by step. It took a while, but was a snap. Then I installed the program which was the reason why I got iemulator in the first place, and it worked perfectly.

I did have one question though and it was answered immediately. I really couldn't be happier.

Thank you for taking my advice and using Jasper Hauser's excellent icon set and a unified toolbar. Although only a minor change iEmulator looks wonderful now and it really shows that you listen to your customers.

Odd..

Lot's of claims how well it works. But none bad?

With OSX 10.3.9 and iEmulator 1.7.7 nothing happens if you create a new pc or import one. Goes through all the motions with buttons and such but after it's done , nothing.

With OSX 10.3.9 and iEmulator 1.7.6 you can't resize the window or change PC resolution without a crash to the guest PC. Fixed already in 1.7.7?

With OSX 10.4.x , All seems fine and a bit speedier.

I can play MSN Zone Games against the girlfriend with iEmulator. VPC can't do MSN Zone and it's made by the same MS idiots.

Speedwise, after you update and tweak it to suit your needs it's very stable and almost as quick as VPC without a hefty price tag like VPC. iEmulator is far leaner than VPC and will one day be far faster. Version 2 maybe?

Lot's of work yet for this great software and it's on the right track and offers some hope for Mac users that are forced to use Windoze.

Nah, it works fine with W2K, and this version is WAY better than the previous. Namely, they changed networking in such a way that I can now access the internet via my LAN at work.

Let's face it, we're only using Windoze because we have to, and iEmulator is as good as any other emulator--much better for the price.

I've been using iEmulator for the past month and this application is a joy to use.

Before I bought iEmulator, I emailed them to ask a few questions, one of which was:

'Is there any risk of opening my mac up to attacks
from viruses etc, if i install this programme? i know
that the mac has its security feature which prevents
anything from being installed without authorisation.'

That was exactly what I asked (just copied and pasted from the email I sent), Viruses were my main concern.

I was so impressed when I was emailed straight back with the answer to my question (not to mention my other questions, I had 4 to begin with):

'iEmulator is very insulated from the Mac environment; the worst that can happen is that your emulated PC gets infected, but it cannot affect any Mac files and folders in any way.'

I commend the iEmulator team for being very honest.

I had trouble purchasing iEmulator (user error), but again Richard, one of the iEmulator team was there to help, and made every effort to figure out the problem, never the less it was a user error (short on funds ~ lol)

I told Richard that I had been researching emulators to run MS Access, and had seen reviews of VPC which stated that version 7 was not as good as version 6.

His reply to that was very honest indeed:

'We fully admit that VirtualPC is a more mature application, and provides better performance in most (but not all!) cases, but we're closing the gap quickly. By version 2.0 (due near the end of the year) we hope to be at least on parity with VPC.'

Since I've not used VPC I can't really talk about it, but I did say that in my opinion that iEmulator is 'on par' with VPC.

I bought iEmulator, the documentation included with iEmulator is phenomenal, its tells you step by step how to install iEmulator and gives a step by step guide of how to install Windows.
I hit alittle snag, which was due to the Windows 98 installer not booting from the virtual cd drive.

Richard was there 100% with a solution, which worked a treat.

I then installed Windows, its was an 'experience' for me since I've never installed Windows before, what made me laugh was that the installer reboots itself after it does something, i think it rebooted after 'hardware test' or something, but it did it quite often.

the trouble then was that when Windows had installed, it wouldn't let me access the Windows environment since it couldn't find some of its own files, which is hilarious and really bad at the same time, its the only installer I've ever used where it cant find its own files.

I emailed Richard again and he was really quick with a response and a solution, that worked 100%,

AWESOME!!

So now I have the superior strengh of Tiger, and can run MS Access, result!

I use iEmulator for other things too, such as checking compatability with Office on the PC and trying out Windows only applications, such as WinRar.

I believe this to be the BEST and SAFEST way to run Windows on a Mac!

I'm not part of the iEmulator development team, I just believe that Exceptional products should be recognised.

I highly recommend this product to any Mac user that needs to run Windows only apps, such as MS Access, and I found other uses for it too, I can check the websites I build in iEmulator, to see how they look on Windows.

The price is excellent too, $23.95 for a fully functional PC.

Oh and they work weekends too!

Thank You for reading